Moving in Space

J. Hathaway

Review

Case Study 9: Get your project moving

Case Study 10: Building the past

Task 19: Spatial Data and Measure Data

Posting Comments on Class Case Studies

Why are we making comments on other’s work?

My example for discussion.

Semester Project Discussion

Please make your own issue right now.

  • Use my issue as a starting point - https://github.com/BYUI335/hathaway/issues/16.
  • Create a new folder in your repository that is called semester_project.
  • If you would like to alter the project, then post a comment to the semester project issue with your update.
  • Call me out and ask me to review and approve changes.

Tracking Progress

  • Don’t forget to keep track of your tasks.
  • Semester project should be moving along.
  • Check out week 13 work and make sure you are working on this.

Geospatial Data

What is GDAL?

The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is a C/C++ geospatial data format translation programming library and associated set of utility programs built using the library. GDAL is one of the jewels of the open source community, and I want to help you understand how to leverage its power to process spatial data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDAL http://www.gdal.org

Is the earth flat?

Do people believe him?

https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-celtics/2017/08/23/heres-why-kyrie-irving-thinks-the-earth-is-flat

Which area is larger - The continental 48 states or the country of Brazil?

  • While a few basketbal players may think the earth is flat, is education feeding us stuff that isn’t true?

What are projections?

  • Which map is correct?
  • Which map shows area correctly?

When we make a map, what is our goal?

Convert to another projection